Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 348, click here.
1. Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong having a smoke break, 1958.
2. Drive-in car hops in shorts and cowboy boots at the Log Lodge Tavern near Love Field airport in Dallas, Texas, 1940.
3. Press photographers and police snipers lie side by side on a roof opposite the Kreditbanken bank on Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm.
A misfired robbery turned into a six-day standoff that gave birth to the phrase “Stockholm syndrome”, Stockholm, Sweden, 1973.
4. Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s wife & sons watch the liftoff of Apollo 11, on 16 July 1969.
5. A woman ties her arm before shooting up cocaine in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York City, Sept. 1992.
6. A man exercises using a rowing machine in the gym aboard the RMS Titanic, 1912.
7. Jewish resistance member jumps to his death to avoid capture by the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April of 1943.
8. Lieutenant Robert G Cole of the 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles) and General Eisenhower on 5 June 1944.
9. Happy french girl and her cat, 1959.
10. US president Jimmy Carter and an aide hop a fence at LaGuardia airport in New York City, 1976.
